glass-hard

Updated: May 19, 2025

You ain't had a real expression on it since you hauled me off that ice-floe in Norton Sound." He swung ahead of the dogs; they rose reluctantly, and with a crack of the whip the little caravan crawled noiselessly into the gray twilight. An hour later they dropped from the plain, down through a gutter-like gully to the river, where they found a trail, glass-hard beneath its downy covering.

Rex Ellingwood Beach - The Silver Horde